Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
ruined-casement-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1986
Type
Chapel
Address
Baptist Chapel, Riverside, Burrowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 354 307
Coordinates
51.07286, -2.92239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Baptist Chapel, also known as Ebenezer Chapel, is a 19th-century building dated 1836, located in Burrowbridge. It features a red brick construction in Flemish bond and a hipped slate roof with boxed eaves. The chapel is arranged in an L-plan, facing southwest, with a vestry and schoolroom at the rear. There is a hipped and gabled parallel range at the back, with a chimney rising from the eaves in the north corner.

The front façade includes two pointed arch-head windows with divided tracery and stepped stone surrounds, along with a rectangular plaque inscribed with "Ebenezer Chapel 1836." A hipped slate-roofed porch made of limestone has painted columns that support an arched and panelled lintel, leading to a semi-circular headed doorway with double panelled doors stained to resemble walnut.

On the left side of the building, there are two semi-circular headed windows with divided tracery heads. The projecting vestry is accessed by a square-headed plank door located in the re-entrant angle, and there is a one-bay addition beyond with a pointed arch window and a square-headed door. The interior of the chapel has not been seen. A porch was added and enlarged at the rear in the late 19th century.

Local climate

Baptist Chapel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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